“The Jay Leno Show”: The Finale. Finally.

Here’s how disposable the last “Jay Leno Show” was: even Jay Leno seemed glad to see it go.

Turns out 10 p.m. isn’t the new 11:35 p.m., and Conan isn’t the new Jay, and everything is going back to pretty much the way it used to be, like one of those time-travel episodes in a sci-fi series where everything was wrong for awhile and someone has to go into the past to set it right.

Most series finales try to go out with a bang: you bring on Bob Dylan and J.D. Salinger’s ghost and the reunited Fugees or something. Speakeasy thought there would be a chance Leno’s good-bye show would feature something special–like the studio audience checks under their seats and there are ten bars of unobtanium.

Instead, Leno’s last show featured Ashton Kutcher, Gabourey Sidibe and Bob Costas. That means Leno’s Super Bowl ad had more interesting guests than he had on his final program.

Leno tried to treat his final show as just another day at the office. He did a bit where he looked back at the last five months which seemed cribbed from a similar-but-funnier segment that Conan O’Brien did in the run up to his departure.

So now Leno has been recalled. We all know Jay is a car guy. What we didn’t know is that that car is a Prius.

In New York at least, Leno’s last few words, if he had any, seemed to get cut off by the local news. Given that many affiliates claimed the show was killing their ratings by beings such a poor lead-in, perhaps that was the most fitting ending of all.

What did you think of Leno’s last show–that is, his last show before he goes back to “The Tonight Show” on March 1 and does the same old show we’ve seen for years? Please leave your thoughts in the comments.